Kimchi & Bulgogi~

Korea was fantastic! The five days was basically a huge shopping stint in Seoul, albeit mostly for the company. Was down at Namdaemun, the wholesale district of hair accessories, necklaces, earrings..basically a girl's paradise! Cept that u have to buy in bulk. There were lotsa street stalls selling bags and caps and brollys too, and um. who could resist? :P

For the entire trip, every early start of the day saw us down at the same particular cross section..we'd just walk across the street and head down for bfast either in this little row of street snack eatery (mostly udon) or grab a sandwich at this really cosy little hut cafe called fish and bean near our hotel. Best sandwich and caramel mocha i had man!! slurps.

Anyway, shopping wholesale is such a cool experience. Basically to me, it was like putting a kid in a candy shop! Just heaps and pretty heaps of fancy baubles in rows and rows of sellers, most of them sticking crystals or jewels on their merchandise by hand.

I got to help choose too! Which is. totally my thing. haha shucks bimbo. aha. well I did mostly recording of the different goods purchased too, since my mentor can't really read nor write in english, and we conversed mostly to the koreans through a calculator, and of course, my hurriedly-researched bit of korean! Lol. biggest thanks to my korean neighb.

Oh, this i can't resist proclaiming. ahh the perks of a merchandise buyer! Alot of "free" samples!! woots! well initially I was pretty paiseh to take certain things i wanted, but since we bought alot from certain sellers, usually i get to pick some pretty bauble for myself, and pretty soon i got the hang of it! Coolbeans eh. *beams*
I tell you i totally enjoyed the process. plus everynight we'd go down to the 'Orchard Rd' night market place, which sells things quite cheaply too! Everything usually goes for 10 000won which is like, S$14, or the smaller stuff wld cost 1000 to 5000won, which is $1.40 to $7, and it's so worth it!
And of course, Korea's famous for it's facial products!

The Faceshop, Etude house, and SkinFOod dotted the streets..and each shop has a costumed salesgirl with a basket(which contains a free box of cottonwool or comb or goody) to invite/lure you in, and the best thing is the products are about $9 to $20 bucks, which is so much cheaper than here! Got a whole set for myself since i needed it..hurhur.

Look what i found! :D

Sadly, i think I slightly regret not eating the famous pork fatty legs that were all over Namdaemun. My companion's favourite, but I insisted I didn't want to cos they looked really fatty and I could feel my face becoming rounder.. Then i saw it on tv last night and damn. shlda tried. :( We didn't get to eat barbequed meat too!! like bulgogi and all. cos they were too expensive and we were kinda on a budget trip? I think. Lol well next time, next time.

In all, I kinda like korea! THere's just something about the koreans. Really warm and friendly people, 'cept they kinda are abit rough when ploughing through crowds..get a bit pushy. Oh yes. How could I miss out the cute guys? Quite a few eye candies already on the street itself. Not bad, standard much better than s'pore's. lol. alright, no more comments otherwise i'd injure more local guys' egos.

lol okay! will upload more pics soon! :)